Terry Brooks - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

KayQy · 05-02-2002, 05:09 PM

I managed to get through the first two books in the series. The Sword, IMO, was painfully on the point of plagiarising. By the second book, he managed to get some original ideas (or at least rip off someone else), but it still wasn't enough to hold my interest for the future ones. My brother, however, loves them, and when I point out the obvious similarities between it and Tolkien, he simply disagrees. Which is, I suppose, why it is still selling. There's just no accounting for tastes. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

05-02-2002, 05:09 PM	#1
KayQy Wight Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Currently Spain Posts: 250	I managed to get through the first two books in the series. The Sword, IMO, was painfully on the point of plagiarising. By the second book, he managed to get some original ideas (or at least rip off someone else), but it still wasn't enough to hold my interest for the future ones. My brother, however, loves them, and when I point out the obvious similarities between it and Tolkien, he simply disagrees. Which is, I suppose, why it is still selling. There's just no accounting for tastes. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Do you really want to know / Or are you a little scared, Afraid that God is not exactly what you'd have Him be? --OC Supertones, "Wilderness" "Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter." -- Max Beerbohm